Everything old is new again:
did Powell’s tape of Iraqi officers date back to before 1998?
So the following e-mail I got from the leftist trainspotter mailing list claims:
An Iraqui refugee in Norway, Former nuclear
scientist,52 years old Jamil Aziz Slewa, says
that Powells recording of two Iraqui officers
discussing the movement of wheapons is
probably pre 1998, if it is not false.
Slewa came as a refugee 4 years ago and
works as a serviceman for x-ray equipment
at the central Hospital of Rogaland.
In 1998 he was interviewed by UN
weapon inspectors for 3 days in
Stavanger.
Slewa confirms that before the Golf War, Iraq was in the
process of producing a Hiroshima-size nuclea bomb. The
Golf War led to the destruction of this program.
Up to then the Iraqis had help from the US,
France, Germany and the UK, who supported
Iraq in its war against Iran.
Iraq wanted a nuclear bomb because Israel
had one.
The cat-and-mouse play that Powell described
in the UN security council was only going on during the first years after the war. At that time Saddam believed that the situation would soon normalize, says Slewa.
Slewa claims that Iraq’s nuclear program was buried in
1995, and has not been restarted since.
Source: Stavanger Aftenblad, a big, highly respected
serious center-right paper in Stavanger.
Quoted in the internet paper NETTAVISEN
www.nettavisen.no owned by the nr. 2 Norwegian (private) TV channel, TV2, at http://www.nettavisen.no/servlets/page?section=309&item=253952
you are welcome to copy and quote this text as much as you like.
(I cleaned up some of the spelling errors.)